About the Authors

Carin Anagrius

carin.anagrius@telia.com

Affiliation Department of Venereology, Falu lasarett, Falun, Sweden

Britta Loré

Affiliation Department of Clinical Microbiology, Falu lasarett, Falun, Sweden

Jørgen Skov Jensen

Affiliation Statens Serum Institut, Microbiology and Infection Control, Sexually Transmitted Infections, Research and Development, Copenhagen, Denmark

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Recruited patients and collected clinical data: CA. Conceived and designed the experiments: CA BL JSJ. Performed the experiments: CA BL JSJ. Analyzed the data: CA BL JSJ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: CA BL JSJ. Wrote the paper: CA BL JSJ.